Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderSmithfield Fire Department
Smithfield, RI · Providence County. Smithfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 61 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 61
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Smithfield Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Rhode Island average.
- Top 11%
- national personnel size
- +61%
- vs. Rhode Island average
- 3
- stations
- $7,101,090
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Smithfield Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Smithfield, RI (Providence County), with 3 stations and 61 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,529 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $7,101,090.
- National personnel rank #2,529 of 22,440
- RI personnel rank #17 of 66
- 4.92 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 33 other listed departments in Providence County
Smithfield Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
61 Top 11% higher than 89% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 31000 · Smithfield Fire Department, RI 61 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 61
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,529
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Forest Park
- FEMA-HEAVY $7.1M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Forest Park Fire Department, OH (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every RI department.
- Smithfield (this dept) 61
- High Village of Swanton, OH 61
- Near Forest Park, OH 61
- Near Placer County, CA 61
- Near Egypt Fire Depart…, NY 61
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Smithfield, RI
- County
- Providence County
- FDID
- 31000
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | EMW-2023-FG-05119 | $477,677.27 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FF-02021 | $3,604,152 |
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-06832 | $626,000 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00438 | $1,738,395.98 |
| 2017 | EMW2016FR00354 | $203,500 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FO-03100 | $202,728 |
| 2015 | EMW2014FR00269 | $248,637 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Rhode Island average
How Smithfield Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Rhode Island. In-state it ranks #17 of 66 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,529 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 9
- RI departments
- 111
County roster fringe
Smithfield Fire Department is 2.7% of Providence County roster mass
The county lists 46 departments totaling 2,266 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 61% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.92 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 61 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Forest Park Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 61 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every RI department.